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Click Here To Edit Notriety. Hodge-Podge -- where allowable

One would almost wonder after observing the taste for variety
thus predominant why the trouble should be taken to make
any separation at all between the Statutes that are
enacted in one Session for out of the others prefaced in
the same Session with this it would not be easy to
pick out 5 that might not dwell of society together with equal
harmony.

The outlines of separating Justice however require
it should be added, that this example, which I have
mentioned first to causebecause I have happened to light on
it first, has nothing in it singular of that if by

is a justification it is justified abundantly.
All comprehensive acts of power of which there are generally
for the Century past one or two in every Session.

I shall rehearse a few more for for the edification [and
not altogether perhaps without the amusement] of the reader
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should from this example seem the Number of instances of antiquity which the greater it it contains
they are, the more it apologizes for the continuance of the
abuse, the more they prove the necessity of a reformation
I have had occasion under the Title of "Malicious Mischief"
to take notice of the Statute of Geo. 3d.ff.2.Cap
inflicting penalties on certain species of that crime.

The contents of this Act as announced in the Title—
besides what have been mentioned are 1st Provisions for
better securing the Duties of Customs upon certain Goods
removed from the Outposts and other places to London.
2d "For regulating the Fees of the Officers of his Majestys
customs in the Province of Senegambia in Africa.
3d "For allowing to the Receivers general of the duties
on Offices of Employments in Scotland apropos compensation
for their trouble and expence.

COMPOS. Hodge Podge Acts

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4th"For authorizing the Exportation of a limited Quantity
of an inferior sort of Barly, call Bigg, from the port of Rickwall in the Islands of Orkacy.

A man might think this Essay alone might have been
the Science of Confusion had been brought to a sufficient
pitch of perfection: I seems otherwise for the next year—
passed another Act for the rectifying a mistake in the "Act
aforesaid++10.Geo.3.c.30. and the honest gentlemen who might have proposed
themselves the satisfaction of demolishing Hollus
Thorns or Quicksets were it not for the difusion of the first
mentioned Statute, for which doubtless having read in —
the Votes of the House of Commons of it's being an agitation
they failed not to repair in due time to his Majesty's
Law Bookseller, these honest gentlemen I say were sent
once more to the said Bookseller, with their Associates
the London Merchants, the Dealers in Bigg the custom
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houses, Offices of Senagambia, and the Scotch Receivers to
see which of them all it was that whom this mistake concerned.
might as well have been out altogether A question which one might [very well] make after observing a
Repealing Statutes may be passed in a Lump; because
there is an end of them and when once that is known
all the business is done—the mind and memory is
discharged.
A man has but to know once that a Statute is there.

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